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Quotes About Unexpected

Why would we ever be surprised when truth turns up in strange places?
~ Rob Bell
We came here for a small, informal meeting. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not
~ Robert A. Heinlein
I was just pulling your leg and it came off in my hand.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Go jogging? And get hit by a meteor?
~ Robert Benchley
loud bang (Ba2Ng2
~ Robert Benchley
Nobody would be quite as surprised as my wife, when I killed her.
~ Robert Bloch
Poitras came
~ Robert Crais
Stephanie was still holding his hand, and Scott was wondering what she meant by it when an enormous Bentley sedan appeared at the end of the street, as out of place in this neighborhood as a flying carpet, windows up, smoked glass, not a speck of dust on its gleaming skin. Stephanie
~ Robert Crais
Deep purple moved through the blue as Pike left. Pike was creepy good at this stuff, but Pike had taken a serious risk by entering Jon's home. A cocked-and-locked Kimber .45 was only inches away, not that it had done Jon any good. Embarrassing. Jon
~ Robert Crais
Another man came in behind Jonathan. He was a little shorter than me, but his arms were as long as backhoe shovels and his shoulders so wide they looked like they had been built of steel frame girders. The arms and the shoulders didn't go with the rest of him, as if they had once belonged to King Kong or Mighty Joe Young or some other large mammal, and now this guy was using them. He was carrying a manila envelope.
~ Robert Crais
Bud Orso was in his early forties, with a chubby scoutmaster's face topped by a crown of short black hair. He was waiting when Scott stepped off the elevator, which Scott had not expected. "Bud
~ Robert Crais
It's just that sometimes things that you don't think are important turn out to be.
~ Robert Ferrigno
The surprise was worse that the pain. It showed a lack of awareness.
~ Robert Ferrigno
Until you have experienced raccoons mating underneath your bedroom at three in the morning, you have missed one of life's sensational moments.
~ Robert Fulghum
There are far worse things to drop on people than Crayolas.
~ Robert Fulghum
and a barge that sailed into the banqueting-hall with his week's washing, just as he was giving a dinner-party; and he was
~ Kenneth Grahame
The Mole recollected that animal-etiquette forbade any sort of comment on the sudden disappearance of one's friends at any moment, for any reason or no reason whatever.
~ Kenneth Grahame
the vague thought passed through my mind that all of us, probably, would die like that: unexpectedly, in the middle of something we wanted to do, instead of at the end of our endeavors, as we always fondly believe.
~ Kenneth Roberts
Far off we heard the clatter of hoofs. Arnold went to the window. "Ho!" he said. "Here's a friend of yours with
~ Kenneth Roberts
Well, strap my ass to a flagpole and hoist it skyward' an all to familiar voice declared.
~ Keri Arthur
Ta-da! The man whipped open his coat. Shit! He wasn't wearing any clothes at all. She grimaced. Just her luck to go vampire hunting and find a flasher.
~ Kerrelyn Sparks
How could everything go so wrong so fast? For goodness' sake, she was only looking for a few plants. But instead, she'd found a whole village of mind-controlled slaves and a whole army of acrobatic kung fu vampires.
~ Kerrelyn Sparks
Right. I can see it now. Merry Christmas, everybody! And by the way, did I tell you I'm a vampire? No need to pass the gravy, just bare your neck-
~ Kerrelyn Sparks